Within minutes, he was kicked out for throwing an object onto the field, but was treated as a hero by the Fenway faithful.

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It is only every 2, 000 years or so that an object the size of a football field descends to earth and causes significant damage, according to NASA. Giant asteroids that crash to earth such as the one that most likely extinguished the dinosaurs tend to occur on the scale of millions of years.

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The magnetometer will record what, if any, magnetic field the asteroid has, thus revealing whether it was ever part of an object large enough to have possessed the molten iron core needed to generate such a field.

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Its gravitational field thus bends and focuses the light from the distant object, making it appear closer than it really is.

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Whether the means involve Federal Election Commission disclosure requirements, Securities and Exchange Commission rules on shareholder resolutions, or simply tagging those with opposing views as "hate groups, " the object is clear: to limit debate by forcing one side off the playing field.

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They intend to do more in-depth observations of the object in the near future, searching for details about its pulsation and its magnetic field.

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